the reccommendations can be all over the place for this. what is your budget? are you going to primarily record from fairly close up or will it be from quite a distance (i.e. you'd need more expensive optics, microphones with higher sensitivity, etc.). are you wanting to be able to record/capture in HD? how many frames per seccond? etc.
do you prefer a dedicated video recorder or would a still/camera/vid rec. hybrid be preferred?

if you can narrow your preferrences, hopefully we can give you a bit more direction.